Scott Jones: loop jams - he didn't even open his eyes... you might just have to rethink your playing ability?

Just working out some ideas over a looped backing track (for personal practice purposes and NOT for sale).

This one is a full 6 minutes plus, with a few more raw moments than usual, but there was enough worth keeping throughout to not just chop it all up to spare a few clunkers and momentary pauses.

I created this loop originally to practice for a gig where I knew I'd likely be improvising during the outro vamp under the vocals. I still really enjoy playing these changes.

Unedited footage archiving linear concepts. To find new ideas and reinforce existing ones.

The harmonic framework is based on the outro chord progression of Toto's Georgy Porgy (Em7, C#7#9#5, F#7#5b9, B7#9#5) over which I'm playing the appropriate melodic minor systems that apply to each chord (E mel min, D mel min, G mel min, C mel min, respectively) from which I extend, and stretch, and over which I superimpose tension through a balance of resolution within the inside framework, and altered, tense, outside concepts, based on a chromatic approach and manipulation of 1/2 step movement of simpler, inside structures like intervals and triads, Within those and other scale structures, half step movement is introduced between the whole step blocks that occur throughout. Half step movement is also used with triads and dyads in ascending and descending fashion, often between "like" shapes that occur within the chosen harmonic framework. Chord tones are often encircled above and below prior to resolution and can be linked by doing so to a series of chord tones. Not perfect, but an archive. ALL improvised. I've changed the way I'm filming so you're stuck with my guitar faces, sad to say.

Scott Jones (w TOTO GEORGY PORGY LOOP)



SJ Bm to G7 FUNK part 2 (w HERRING LOOP)


Scott Jones Bm to G7 FUNK part 1 (w HERRING LOOP)